Right... :)

I certainly don't see a solution to this other than to assume all devices
do the wrong thing.  I'm just not willing to quirk-list half of all devices
out there.

If someone has a good solution, I'd love to hear it... but, realistically,
I don't know that one exists. 

Matt

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:31:58AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:03, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:52:16AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:35, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > > > Really, the only safe thing to do is assume media-change on
> > > > removal/insertion, given that devices (as a generalized term) are
> > > > inconsistant in their ability/willingness to indicate media change.
> > >
> > > Could you "quirk" this, so that the normal assumption is that unannounced
> > > media change did occur, and then make happier assumptions for known
> > > good devices?
> >
> > We could 'quirk' it, but it would quirk the other way -- most devices
> > properly report media change.  Otherwise we'd be listing almost all devices
> > in the quirk table.
> Maybe linear search isn't the best option for unusual devices :)
> 
> > The problem is that this is a pretty serious problem.... if it doesn't
> > work, all sorts of things fail.  We kinda have to assume the worst, given
> > the distribution of devices in existance.
> This was why I went with the "assume that the device does mad/bad things"
> and then "when someone claims that their device works, quirk it to good".
> 
> Brad
> 
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